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• Dept. Of Dick Needs A Jump Start Again: Cheney Having Heart Surgery Tomorrow, Bush Will Briefly Be 'President'

  Published: July 27, 2007, 2:39 pm

  Tags: Dept Of Dick Needs A Jump Start Again, Dick Cheney, Robots

  Last Saturday doctors performed surgery on George Bush’s asshole, and this Saturday they’ll do it again! But this time, it’s the other asshole, Dick Cheney. They are going to take...

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• Picking a Dead Man's Pocket

  Published: July 19, 2007, 12:23 pm

  Tags: Prevention, Legal Issues, Articles, Dmca, Archive, Caching, Content Theft, Copyright, Copyright Infringement, Internet Archive, Meta Tags, Plagiarism, Robots Txt, Rss, Scraping, Spam, Spammers, Splogs

  archiving sites: Edit your robots.txt file to exclude the Internet Archive and other archiving services. All cached copies of your site should be removed within a few days. (Note: You can skip this step in favor of step three but it is worth being certain that these archiving sites drop your cached copies.) Block All Search Engines: Since

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• IMeooow: iCat Interacts, Plays, Gets Pissed Off, Doesn't Need Litter Box

  Published: July 27, 2007, 3:20 pm

  Tags: Icat, Imeooow, Philips, Robots

  With 13 servos controlling its eyebrows, eyes, eyelids and weird Angelina-Jolie-esque lips, Philips' iCat can play, chat with you and "explore human-robot interaction," all for your enjoyment. Until he puts that "I'm going to kick your ass and take your eyeballs off" face on. Then you should be happy that it's only 38 cm tall and actually has no

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• Multitasking Robots: Multiple Speech Recognition To Make Sex Dolls More Fun

  Published: July 29, 2007, 10:45 am

  Tags: Honda Research Institute Japan, Kyoto University, Multiple Speech Recognition, Multitasking Robots, Robot Audition Project, Robovie R2

  This has allowed robots to recognise the direction and hence categorise speech input qualitatively according to each individual. The team has already incorporated the developments into the much-loved Honda Asimo and another robot called Robovie R2, seen in the video. The practical applications are staggering, but surly the most

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• Multiple Speech Recognition To Make Sex Dolls More Fun

  Published: July 29, 2007, 11:45 am

  Tags: Robots, 167, 324, 169, 2767

  This has allowed robots to recognise the direction and hence categorise speech input qualitatively according to each individual. The team has already incorporated the developments into the much-loved Honda Asimo and another robot called Robovie R2, seen in the video. The practical applications are staggering, but surly the most

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• Flying robots spy for government

  Published: July 30, 2007, 12:55 pm

  Tags: Robots

  Before the robot hordes rise up and kill us all, we best get them to do our bidding for a while longer. Instead of going gigantic, scientists have been working to bring automatons down to size, and the researchers at Harvard think they have something perfect for the military. Professor Robert Wood has developed a life-sized robotic fly for use

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• Corrupted Memories: Chuck E Cheese Robots Hacked to Play Hip Hop

  Published: July 31, 2007, 10:55 am

  Tags: Clips, Corrupted Memories, Robots

  less nightmare-inducing robots. That may be because I'm older now and less afraid of robots, but if I remember correctly the music these robots used to play while I scarfed down crappy pizza and wasted my parent's quarters on Skee Ball was pretty frightening. [Boing Boing]

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• Chuck E Cheese Robots Hacked to Play Hip Hop

  Published: July 31, 2007, 11:55 am

  Tags: Robots, 436, 270, 169

  less nightmare-inducing robots. That may be because I'm older now and less afraid of robots, but if I remember correctly the music these robots used to play while I scarfed down crappy pizza and wasted my parent's quarters on Skee Ball was pretty frightening. [Boing

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• Cockroach Robot: Cockroach Robot Controlled by L.E.D.'s Buck Rogers-esque Cockpit

  Published: August 1, 2007, 10:50 am

  Tags: Cockroach Robot, Halluc Ii, Hull Cockpit, Japan, Robots

  FuRo and Leading Edge Design, the guys who came up with the Halluc II robot have been showing off the little Linux beastie's moves, using their Hull cockpit. Boasting a 150-cm hemispherical screen that displays video from the camera embedded at the front of the robot, the cockpit has another little trick up its sleeve. Check out the two vids

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• Disney Cages 'Pet Robots'

  Published: August 1, 2007, 7:31 am

  Tags: Benderspink, Cinematical, Film, Movies, Scott Christian Sava, Scottchristiansava, Toy Robots, Toyrobots

  Christian Sava called Pet Robots. The premise -- well, take Fido, wipe out the zombies and add in robots and you'll get the idea -- these aren't animal bots. Sava's book is a present-day comedy about "futuristic robots that fall into the hands of the least likely group of people." That group of people are four students -- Jake, Chris, Tammy

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• Cockroach Robot: Space-age Cockpit Gives You Bug-bot Vision

  Published: August 1, 2007, 10:50 am

  Tags: Cockroach Robot, Halluc Ii, Hull Cockpit, Japan, Robots

  FuRo and Leading Edge Design, the guys who came up with the Halluc II robot have been showing off the little Linux beastie's moves, using their Hull cockpit. Boasting a 150-cm hemispherical screen which displays video from the camera embedded at the front of the robot, the cockpit has another little trick up its sleeve. Check out the two vids

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• Robots: Spyke the Skype Robot

  Published: August 2, 2007, 1:00 pm

  Tags: Robot Webcam, Robots, Skype, Spyke, Webcam

  Normal Skype phones are boring. That's why Spyke, the Skype robot that transforms into another robot, is so cool. Not only does it transform into a slightly different bot, it's a Wi-Fi webcam, which means you can use it like a regular Skype-enabled webcam to record video, take pics and have NORMAL CONVERSATIONS. Yes, I'm talking to you through a

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• Warfare: First Fully-Armed Robots Patrolling in Iraq; First Shots Imminent

  Published: August 2, 2007, 3:15 pm

  Tags: Robots, Swords, Warfare

  Oh, just some bomb-disposal robots armed with M249 machine guns. Holy shit, robots with machine guns. This is a pretty huge step forward for robotics in warfare. Never before have armed robots been deployed in a war. There are only three of them deployed at the moment, and none of them have fired any rounds yet, but Michael Zecca, the SWORDS

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• Tondon robot hits hard times, becomes janitor to pay the bills

  Published: August 2, 2007, 4:55 pm

  Tags: Robots

  Japan, robots are becoming so commonplace that they aren't getting special treatment anymore. Just like we want to eat, a robot has to pull its weight if it wants to get its joints oiled now and then — and robots weigh more. Some enterprising 'bots have already filled as receptionists, and now we hear that Tondon robots are getting off

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• Spyke the Skype Robot

  Published: August 2, 2007, 2:00 pm

  Tags: Robots, 169, 667, 636, 115

  Normal Skype phones are boring. That's why Spyke, the Skype robot that transforms into another robot, is so cool. Not only does it transform into a slightly different bot, it's a Wi-Fi webcam, which means you can use it like a regular Skype-enabled webcam to record video, take pics and have NORMAL CONVERSATIONS. Yes, I'm talking to you through a

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